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Definition of Terawatts
1. terawatt [n] - See also: terawatt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terawatts
Literary usage of Terawatts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options by David G. Victor (2004)
"... of the technological task, consider that the entire world's economy today is
powered with about 14 trillion watts (terawatts, or TW) of primary energy. ..."
2. Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-edge Engineering from the 2005 by Nae, National Academy of Engineering (2006)
"... California Currently the world consumes an average of 13 terawatts (TW) of power.
By the year 2050, as the population increases and the standard of ..."
3. One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment by Cheryl Simon Silver, Ruth S. DeFries (1990)
"in which energy growth after 1985 is assumed to be reduced by a fixed amount (0.2
terawatts [TW] per year, which is about 2 percent of present demand) each ..."
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